| ISBN |
9780226473000 (alk. paper) |
| 0226473007 (alk. paper) |
| Name |
Lerer, Seth, 1955- |
| Title |
Children's literature : a reader's history, from Aesop to Harry Potter / Seth Lerer. |
| Published |
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008. |
| Description |
ix, 385 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-375) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Toward a New History of Children's Literature -- 1. Speak, Child: Children's Literature in Classical Antiquity -- 2. Ingenuity and Authority: Aesop's Fables and Their Afterlives -- 3. Court, Commerce, and Cloister: The Literatures of Medieval Childhood -- 4. From Alphabet to Elegy: The Puritan Impact on Children's Literature -- 5. Playthings of the Mind: John Locke and Children's Literature -- 6. Canoes and Cannibals: Robinson Crusoe and Its Legacies -- 7. From Islands to Empires: Storytelling for a Boy's World -- 8. On beyond Darwin: From Kingsley to Seuss -- 9. Ill-Tempered and Queer: Sense and Nonsense, from Victorian to Modern -- 10. Straw into Gold: Fairy-Tale Philology -- 11. Theaters of Girlhood: Domesticity, Desire, and Performance in Female Fiction -- 12. Pan in the Garden: The Edwardian Turn in Children's Literature -- 13. Good Feeling: Prizes, Libraries, and the Institutions of American Children's Literature -- 14. Keeping Things Straight: Style and the Child -- 15. Tap Your Pencil on the Paper: Children's Literature in an Ironic Age -- Epilogue. Children's Literature and the History of the Book. |
| Summary |
"Children's Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop's fables to Mother Goose, from Alice in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter. Seth Lerer here explores the ionic books, ancient and contemporary alike, that have forged a lifelong love of literature in young readers during their formative years. Along the way, Lerer also looks at the changing environments of family life and human growth, schooling and scholarship, and publishing and politics in which children found themselves changed by the books they read. This work appraises a broad trajectory of influences - including Shakespeare's plays, John Lock's theories of education, Darwin's On the Origin of Species, and the Puritan tradition - which have each shaped children's literature through the ages as well."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subjects |
Children's literature -- History and criticism |
| Web Link |
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| Internet Site |
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| See Also |
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| See Also |
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